The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-04


y. H. Long & Co. give notice anon
our locals that they are prepared to pun
chase so colts, for which they will pa
reasonable prices.
-Ifyou don't understand the princi
pies of the Building and Loan assscia
ton, go to their meeting to-morro,
night and be enlightened.
Attic Methodist Episcopal church oil
Sunday morning, the pastor, Rev. G. r
HAIR viii preach on "The Church a
Ephesus." Evening theme: 'The Incon
sistencies of Christians no excuse for oh
jecting Christianity"
Go to the annual meeting Of TIT
Building and Loan association to-mor
row night and take your pocket-book
The dollars invested there never grow
less, but rapidly multiply.
--Itis rumored that Capt. Keysor, aftel
seeing the ice carnival saw nothing more
of his pocket-book and about $l7.OO
The rumor has not been verified by the
writer, hence it is given out "cold" and
not by the card.
MIR. and Mrs. M. d. L. Collester en-
friends at progressive euchre
one evening last week, and Mr.. and Mrs
Jno. A. Samborn followed suit Wednes-
day evening of this week. Very pleas
ant evenings were spent upon both &C.
Casions.
Manager Merrill, of the Mankato
Cement Works, received very impor'
tant communication from Superintend-
ent Cummings, of the Standard Cement
Co., which it would do our heart good to
publish, but We are denied the privilege.
The letter is brief, but it contains some
rich information.
If, as the Revieav says, sit is rumored
that several of our new county officials
were around the capitol last week, work
ing for bill to increase their salaries,
let us have the names. "Rumor" would
indicate who the "new county
officials" are. Or is the RerieW editor
the source of the rumor?
M. o. Sundt, Esq, the popular mer-
chant tailor, is.to be congratulated upon
his purchase of the business lot adjoIn-
ing Wickersham & Brown, on Front
street. The property was purchased
through II. p. Christensen's real estate
agency, and the price paid was 100.
Mr.. Sundt will put up two story brick
IN the spring, with frontage
IF % feet on Front street, and 100 feet
ieep.
Lillian Lewis, supported by superb
New York Company in a repertoire of
modern society dramas, is booked for
he Opera House in this city March IA,
md it is very likely that she will re-
main here two nights. Miss Lewis is
thief among the stage beauties of the
lay, and she has won brilliant recogni-
ion as star, solely on her own merits.
The entertainment or entertainments
will be the best our people have been
afforded al opportunity of Witnessing
or long time.
-Mankato contributed $500 to the
Sauk Rapids and st. Cloud cyclone suf-
erers last April. Other cities did their
share. Great numbers of individual
donations of large and small sums were
made, until the relief committee was
orced to announce that all necessary
money, etc, had been forwarded. When
he bills were footed up and cash count
ID, considerable sum remained in the
hands of the committee, and it has been
returned to the donors in proportion to
he amount donated. Mayor Carney re-
,eived check for $l05.22 on Saturday
Is the per cent due our city from the
surplus.
People who, by virtue of the pleas
INT weather of last week, had fattered
themselves That the backbone Of winter
lad been broken. were more or less I'M
prepared TO suffer the sudden change of
Weather and the extreme cold of Sunday
md Monday. Saturday afternoon the
began to go down and did
not let up until it reached 30degrees be-
ow zero Sunday morning. In st. Paul
his was the coolest day for fifteen years,
he average being 26 dogs. below. While
he mercury did not mark quite so low
an average in Mankato, it was neverthe-
less the coolest day experienced here
Tor many years. Monday morning found
the thermometer at % degs. below, but
il moderated Tuesday sufficiently during
The forenoon to admit of lively fall of
snow in the afternoon. Since that time
The weather has been decidedly cold.
There seems to be no good and suf-
feient argument advanced why the city
Of Mankato should not have six instead
Of four wards. The first and fourth
wards are altogether too large, while the
second and third are large enough.
The argument that the creation OF
new wards would tend to create or
revive the old jealousies between
upper and lower town is not ten
able. We believe the people of Manka-
10 have outgrown this contracted idea OF
pulling away from each other and are
prepared to view the interests of the city
as a whole and not as part. The only
way cities are made prosperous and pro.
gressive is by united, harmonious action,
and If Mankato is to continue on the
road of prosperity she must not be
by dividing line. 1t will be
but few years at most when addi'
tionai wards must be carved out of the
existing four, and it would seem
the better part of discretion, now that
the charter is being revised, to anticipate
this particular and potent fact and put
an end TO the matter.